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Praise for Trouble in Paradise
"Granger gets the atmosphere of 1940s London just right, down to the fish-paste sandwiches and the seamed 'nylon' stockings women drew onto their legs."
--Publishers Weekly
"Granger gets the atmosphere of 1940s London just right, down to the fish-paste sandwiches and the seamed 'nylon' stockings women drew onto their legs."
--Publishers Weekly
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The fourth in Pip Granger's acclaimed Soho series of novels featuring nine-year-old Rosie - and Lizzy, a heart-warming new character destined for adventure and romance.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
A brilliant, amusing, unputdownable book. In this are the familiar (and some unusual) characters of The Widow Ginger another Pip Granger book. Loved it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I bought this for my gran, along with a few other novels.
She said it was a great read
She said it was a great read
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Yeah for Pip Granger!!!
31 Dec 2005
Format:Hardcover
Don't you just love it when a book takes you out of your normal life and totally into a different world? You can hear the accents, smell the fry-ups, feel the satins and silks of the dress shop in this latest trip into Pip Granger's post-war London. Soho is the scene as Peace, a young half English/half Chinese teenager comes to live with her aunt after running away from her boarding school. But soon, Peace has left her aunt's, accused of jewel theft, and is kidnapped by a Chinese Triad. Excellent reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
thought provoking historical work
1 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
It is 1956 and Soho, England is a combination red light district and Greenwich Village with a definite feel of a neighborhood community. Same sex relationships, threesome trysts and having sex without being married is tolerated. Lizzy is still recovering from the death of her daughter a year and a half ago with the help of the people in the neighborhood especially those who hang at the diner on Old Compton Road owned and operated by Maggie and her husband Bert with help from their adopted daughter Rosie.
At the local nightclub run by Bandy and Sugar Plum Flaherty, the former's ward Peace, a Chinese- student, has run away from the boarding school and stay at Bandy's place. Bandy wants her to return to school but the child has been subjected to the prejudice of the students. Bandy, who is in the middle of a hot blooded affair accuses the girl of stealing her pearl jewelry. A hurt Peace goes to is stay with Lizzye who happily take her in. She comes to think of the girl as a daughter so when she disappears, she rallies all the people in the neighborhood to find out where she is staying. They learn that Peace has been kidnapped; using all their considerable resources, they try to find the girl and whoever is behind it who wants her shipped back to China.
Pip Granger has written an exciting mystery wrapped around a family saga. Lizzie doesn't know that when she takes Peace into her home she will end up dealing with Chinese Tongs and Triads, kidnappers and eloping lovers but even if she did know, she would choose the same path because she loves Peace. The characters are realistic and the bohemian setting of Soho is vividly described so that readers will identify it with the locale before it fell apart. This is a thought provoking historical work that readers will enjoy very much.
Harriet Klausner
At the local nightclub run by Bandy and Sugar Plum Flaherty, the former's ward Peace, a Chinese- student, has run away from the boarding school and stay at Bandy's place. Bandy wants her to return to school but the child has been subjected to the prejudice of the students. Bandy, who is in the middle of a hot blooded affair accuses the girl of stealing her pearl jewelry. A hurt Peace goes to is stay with Lizzye who happily take her in. She comes to think of the girl as a daughter so when she disappears, she rallies all the people in the neighborhood to find out where she is staying. They learn that Peace has been kidnapped; using all their considerable resources, they try to find the girl and whoever is behind it who wants her shipped back to China.
Pip Granger has written an exciting mystery wrapped around a family saga. Lizzie doesn't know that when she takes Peace into her home she will end up dealing with Chinese Tongs and Triads, kidnappers and eloping lovers but even if she did know, she would choose the same path because she loves Peace. The characters are realistic and the bohemian setting of Soho is vividly described so that readers will identify it with the locale before it fell apart. This is a thought provoking historical work that readers will enjoy very much.
Harriet Klausner
nothing happens
10 Jan 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book seems to be a fleshed-out short story, which is pretty flimsy to begin with. Nothing happens until halfway into the book, and from then on the story lacks any of the endearing characteristics of other books by this author. I was disappointed by it.
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